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Deadline nears to lodge appeals on assessments 2024 will be final year for 3-year value freeze By BEECHER TUTTLE newsroom@appenmedia.com
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From left, Georgia’s first lady Marty Kemp; Gov. Brian Kemp; Ken Beyer, CEO of Transportation Insights Holding Company; Dunwoody Mayor Lynn Deutsch; and Richard Hicks, CEO of Inspiredu, cut the ribbon on TIHC’s new headquarters June 26 at Campus 244.
Governor celebrates Campus 244 growth Firms move headquarters to Perimeter development By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. — Gov. Brian Kemp stopped by Dunwoody June 26
to celebrate Transportation Insight and Nolan Transportation Group’s new headquarters at Campus 244. Employees started moving into the 174,000-square-foot space on the third and fourth floor a couple weeks ago. The 1.3 million-square-foot mixed-use development just north of
I-285 includes a hotel, restaurants and a five-story, 405,000-square-foot Class-A office building. The state’s chief executive, back from an economic development trip to South Korea, helped cut the ribbon at the new headquarters along
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ATLANTA — Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in April signed a bill to limit large annual property tax increases that have plagued homeowners in Metro Atlanta suburbs for the better part of a decade. While the legislation should help property owners in counties like Fulton, DeKalb and Forsyth, it will also quietly remove what some deem a loophole that has benefitted taxpayers who know the ins and outs of the property assessment process. The coming days and weeks will likely represent the last chance homeowners have to lock in their property values without much of a fight. Set to be enacted prior to the 2025 tax season, House Bill 581 will enable counties to limit the appreciation of property values to no more than the current rate of inflation. The new law comes on the heels of significant annual surges in taxable property values in most every county in North Georgia and parts of Metro Atlanta. However, the bill will also soon prevent homeowners from taking advantage of the current system where simply appealing a property tax assessment will freeze the appraisal value for the current and two
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